Hisham Zazou

Zazou was born in 1954. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in commerce from Ain Shams University in 1980.

Beside his Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting from the University of Ain Shams in Cairo, Zaazou earned a specialized Certificate in PPP. (Public Private Partnership) from Harvard Kennedy Business School, MBA & PhD from the international business from IBRA, Delaware, USA.

Zazou began his career in the City Bank Group for five years in Cairo. Then he helped to establish a tourist agency in the US focusing on the Egyptian market and began to work in the tourism field. From 2004 to 2007, Zazou served as the chair of the Egyptian Tourism Federation.

During the Mubarak era, in 2009, Zazou served as the first deputy of the minister of tourism.{{cite web|title=Zazou: The Egyptian Agenda is Eventful to Attract Arab Tourists|url=http://www.abou-alhool.com/arabic1/details.php?id=20867|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030618/http://www.abou-alhool.com/arabic1/details.php?id=20867|url-status=usurped|archive-date=4 March 2016|publisher=Abou|accessdate=29 August 2012|date=May 2009}} After the Egyptian uprising, he served as senior assistant to former tourism minister Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour.{{cite news|title=Egypt's new economy ministers: Who's who|url=http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/3/0/49287/Business/0/Egypts-new-economy-ministers-Whos-who.aspx|accessdate=29 August 2012|newspaper=Al-Ahram|date=3 August 2012|author=Ahmed Feteha|author2=Bassem Abo Al Abass|author3=Nesma Nowar}} On 2 August 2012, Zazou began to serve as tourism minister in the cabinet of Hesham Qandil. Although Zazou submitted his resignation on 1 July 2013, it was announced by the state news agency MENA on 15 July that he would continue to serve as tourism minister in the cabinet of interim prime minister Hazem Al Beblawi.{{cite news|title=Post-Morsy Egypt forging government of technocrats|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/14/world/meast/egypt-government|access-date=15 July 2013|publisher=CNN|date=15 July 2013|author=Nick Paton-Walsh|author2=Schams Elazar|author3=Joe Sterling}} Zazou sworn in on 16 July.{{cite news|title=Egypt's first post-Morsi cabinet – who's who|url=http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/76609/Egypt/Politics-/UPDATE--Egypts-first-postMorsi-cabinet--whos-who-.aspx|accessdate=16 July 2013|newspaper=Al-Ahram|date=16 July 2013}}

Following a fatal attack in the Sinai Peninsula in August 2012, in which 16 Egyptian soldiers were killed by armed men who subsequently infiltrated into Israel and were killed by the Israel Air Force, Zazou denied that there was a negative impact on tourism following the attack, and said that tourism agencies did not cancel reservations and that he was personally calling them to make sure. Zazou stressed that tourists should feel secure in Egypt.

In June 2013, Zazou submitted his resignation in protest at President Morsi's appointment of a member of the Construction and Development party as governor of Luxor – this party being associated with the Jama'a al-Islamiya group, which had killed 62 tourists and local tourism-industry workers in the 1997 Luxor Massacre. Zazou's resignation placed him at the head of a mass protest from all quarters of the Egyptian tourism industry, a main source of foreign currency that is vital to the country's economy. Prime Minister Hisham Qandil "refused the resignation and asked him to stay at his post to review the situation".{{cite web|url=http://english.nuqudy.com/North_Africa/Egypt_Morsi_Promote-5874|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130628040934/http://english.nuqudy.com/North_Africa/Egypt_Morsi_Promote-5874|url-status=usurped|archive-date=28 June 2013|title=Egypt: Morsi Promotes Man Behind Attacks Against Tourists|publisher=Nuqudy|date=20 June 2013|accessdate=2 July 2013}} A few days later the new governor resigned instead.{{cite news|title=Egypt tourism minister resigns over controversial new governor|url=http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/egypt-tourism-minister-resigns-over-controversial-new-governor|accessdate=21 June 2013|newspaper=Al Akhbar|date=19 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304083624/http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/egypt-tourism-minister-resigns-over-controversial-new-governor|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}

However, he and four other ministers resigned from office on 1 July due to government's reaction to mass demonstrations in the country. Then prime minister Qandil refused to accept Zazou's resignation, however, and asked him to remain in the post.{{cite news|title=Four Egyptian ministers resign|url=http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/75402/Egypt/Politics-/Four-Egyptian-ministers-resign.aspx|accessdate=2 July 2013|newspaper=Al-Ahram|date=1 July 2013}}

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